Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

I asked my Twitter followers for suggestions for questions , I tweeted the key points from the conversation yesterday. He suggests that organizations forget that they're on the Internet and think about what their strategy in offline terms. Think like an offline community grassroots organizer.". Tags: facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2009

You can read the full post and join the conversation on SSIR here. to share some of what I believe is the core of successful community building (on or offline). That the Internet is a huge community of people looking to connect with others like them to form smaller, more specific communities. The post is copied below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. Conversational Key Note. 3: Use conversation starters to engage your target audience.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 5, 2009

I have a new post up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog and wanted to share it here as well because I think it could start some interesting conversation. Many organizations have been saying the same thing about using the Internet for many years now, “we need someone to make us a Web site!” No, you really don’t.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

The internet connection here is such that I don’t think a live blog portal will sustain itself. NWF - tag mentions in delicious with which programs or projects are mentioned, can share link to that tag on delicious with staff to see their section. Are there ways of catching offline datapoints? Can’t wait!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! The debate around social media and the Internet in general as a leveling force is still heated from all sides. Tags: community issues causes data facebook future myspace openweb ssir.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! The debate around social media and the Internet in general as a leveling force is still heated from all sides. Tags: community issues causes data facebook future myspace openweb ssir.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

Please come to this fun and informative webinar, where you'll receive top technology tips from library technology experts, hear what MaintainIT Project staff learned from their many conversations and library travels around the country, and you'll find out how you can keep the rich Cookbook content and community alive on WebJunction.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. Yes we have an accessible and attention span limited world thanks in great deal to the internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. Over the past three years, Planned Parenthood has built an impressive Internet presence and social media strategy. Others have a different take.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Power : lastly, and very importantly, we see our contributions making an impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note. One part included having people stand if they had a formal or informal communications plan/strategy (half the room) -and then had them sit down in waves to determine formal communications, Internet strategy, and social strategy. What's the Hash Tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

As a SEO and Social Media Manager, I have learned the ins and outs of traffic building, lead generation, website user conversion and community building. You did see that I billed myself as the 'slightly insane internet marketer' right? Tags: social media. I started blogging in 2001 with my very first 'blog' on Diaryland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. What we do know is that both the online and offline work of every non-profit can be enhanced by a dynamic online community in which organizations and users support one another. What is it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Starting and maintaining conversations with stakeholders. What did you learn that from your experience that you apply to starting and maintaining conversations with stakeholders? I got on the Internet in the early days when it was social media. I was networking weaving between the offline/online. Note the blink tag!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I had to learn how to create web pages, manage email, modem escape codes, navigate the Internet, and whatever came along. Here's the description: Join Beth Kanter who has been teaching nonprofit technology workshops for over 15 years, both offline and online. Tags: training materials. Materials and Lesson Plan Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

And organizations need to shift their view on how to use technology/the internet to accomplish things (and especially do more than just raise money). Brian shared some more thoughts in his post, " The Internet Has Made Us Lazy." Tags: facebook. Any help i can get on that front is always welcome, welcome, welcome!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . This is the way I've described the Nptech Tagging community and other ad-hoc communities where people come ogether first through social media tools. Tags: network effectiveness scholar working wikily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

For example, on Twitter, a strong tie could be two nodes or people that engage consistently in two-way conversation. Network maps support "what if conversations.". I've been intrigued by social data exploration and wonder what offline processes might be adapted to doing this with a software tool? See this map from Malina ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. Social Fundraising: Leveraging On and Offline Connections. Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation. What is your blog conversation strategy? Tags: socialmediametrics. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. You're Never Too Old To Change the World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

He also makes a false distinction between online/offline or as Allison and I have called it “online and onland&# activism. One key point is that Internet bolsters strong ties directly and indirectly. Even then, those who donated were definitely contacts with whom I had more in-depth conversations. That was the point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. " I did manage to get Internet access on my nokia N95 and couldn't resist Twittering his quip.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

They were able to use the platform for organizing offline events, finding and collaborating with volunteer organizers, and more. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. Tags: socialmedia. Learn more: WomenWhoTech.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Tags: sxsw. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Tags: sxsw. One of these is "community funded reporting" which is being pioneered by Spot.us

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs. How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Tags: beth kanter NPTech sxsw. but is happening around the country by various individuals.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. For this conversation, we are going to start with the frame of the analog paradigm and move forward from there. It was a terrific conference, with people from all areas of the state and all areas of the sector. Social Tactics.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Use the tag #MPS09 to follow conversations and highlights from others at the event. conversations. do you think about online or offline? we mean a group being ‘led’ Community confusion: people rarely consider themselves part of communities offline. most proud of job at an adoption charity. reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

I may just be cynical, but I’ve seen too many technology providers claim that their tools will help organizations raise money, engage volunteers, mobilize action, or generally address organizational challenges in ways that only the internet is suited to do. Facebook Causes followed the same path. They are tied to celebrities or major events.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I learned a lot about fundraising before the internet, when you just dialed for dollars and sent mailings and had a lot of house parties. . We had a great conversation. Alyssa says, “When you thank publicly on social media, absolutely you want to get permission first, even tagging people in post.”

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

Open Data Kit helps you collect and manage data through a mobile app that works offline. Open Function is an automated data integration tool that connects anything to anything (think Internet of things sensors connected to water pumps in mines). It's also worth following Nick Pickles because he tweets about this stuff a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2010

Danielle says, “As soon as I let a caller know about the community and how she can access it, the tone of conversation changes immediately. As anyone who spends time online knows , conversations about abortion, especially those where a woman’s personal experience is at the center, are likely to be contentious, polarizing, and judgmental.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2011

Tonight she tagged me in her Facebook post about how support Egyptians march tomorrow online and offline. Here’s the list: ONLINE activism: Tweet with the hashtag #Egypt to the top of the trends. Tag friends in Egypt, and those active in this movement in your posts/tweets to broaden impact. Blog your hearts out!

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